Adding new raid partitions causes panic on reboot

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 23 March 2007 16:49:06 Andy Burns wrote:
> while running I created /dev/sd[abcdef]2 as raid partitions using the
> remainder of the disks
> the kernel refused to re-read the partition tables, when exiting
> fdisk, and also when I tried to force it with blockdev --rereadpt
>
> therefore I couldn't yet do mdadm --create as partitions unknown to
> kernel, so I rebooted to allow kernel to see new partitions, then
> planned to create array after reboot.

Wild guess here, what if you repeat this scenario using parted instead of 
fdisk?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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